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Water damage mitigation for businesses
Protect your business against serious damage and keep costs down with our customizable Water Mitigation Program
Be prepared during wildfire season
Safeguard your business from a wildfire emergency by following the recommendations in this article.
Reduce risk of fire from woodworking dust
Woodworking operations create a combustible dust, which can cause risk for property loss if it isn’t properly handled.
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Commercial kitchen
- Commercial kitchen fire protection checklist
- Commercial kitchen safety
- Commercial kitchen fire safety
- Kitchen fire prevention at residential facilities
- Outdoor heater safety
Fire extinguisher
- Fire extinguisher use and selection
- Inspect fire extinguishers to ensure proper operation
- Step-by-step fire extinguisher use (infographic)
Sprinklers & fire detection
- Is your fire protection system NFPA-compliant?
- NFPA 13R sprinkler protection
- NFPA 13R sprinklers - Is your building fully protected?
- Dry-pipe fire suppression
- Fire protection impairment program
- Step-by-step fire protection impairment (infographic)
- Microbiologically-influenced corrosion in fire sprinkler systems
- Fire sprinkler maintenance and operation
- Sprinkler system testing
- Guide to fire pump testing and maintenance
- Automatic sprinkler plan review
- Prepare automatic sprinklers for winter
- Identifying and Preventing MIC in Fire Sprinkler Systems
- CPVC piping in automatic sprinkler systems
- National fire prevention week: protect your people and property with smoke alarms
Pallets
- Safely store idle pallets to minimize risk
- The right way to store idle pallets
- Store idle pallets properly to lower fire risk (infographic)
Process/operations fire safety
- Grounding and bonding safety
- Flammable liquids
- Prevent dangers caused by flammable liquids
- Combustible hydraulic fluids
- Spray booth safety
- Waterborne spray finishing
- Hot work permits
- Hot work at senior living facilities
- Auto shop fire safety
- Reduce risk of fire from woodworking dust
- How to install and maintain a wood stove
- Dryer vent safety | En Español
- Waste oil heaters
- Storage of aerosol products
- Rack storage flue spacing
- Exterior insulation and finish systems (EIFS)
- Grill safety at residential properties (infographic)
- Grilling safety tips | En Español
- Waste oil heating safety
- Help Prevent Dryer Vent Fires in Your Residential Properties
- Hot Work: Keep Your Building, Workers and Visitors Safe
- Maintain fire doors and keep them closed
- Lithium-ion batteries: Minimize fire hazards
- Electric vehicle charging stations: Minimize your risk
- How to help prevent an electrical room fire
- Infrared thermography
- Preventing electrical fires
- Protecting against electrical power surges
- Electrical preventive maintenance (EPM) programs
- Electric vehicle charging stations
- Thermographic surveys to maintain electrical systems
- Electrical fires and arc-fault circuit interrupters
- 8 steps to prepare your business for wildfire
- Are you in a Wildland-Urban Interface region?
- Be prepared during wildfire season
- IBHS wildfire guide: California
- IBHS wildfire guide: Central U.S.
- IBHS wildfire guide: Florida
- IBHS wildfire guide: Great Lakes
- IBHS wildfire guide: Mid-Atlantic/Northeast
- IBHS wildfire guide: Rocky Mountain
- IBHS wildfire guide: Southeast
- IBHS wildfire guide: Southern California
- IBHS wildfire guide: Southwest
- IBHS wildfire guide: Pacific Northwest
- Infographic: Wildfire safe area
- Protecting commercial buildings from wildfire
- Small businesses: Protecting your building from wildfire
- Smart landscaping to help prevent fires
- Take steps to reduce risk in wildfire-prone areas
- Prepare and protect your business from wildfire
- Reducing tree damage from windstorms
- Preparing your business for stormy weather
- High wind checklist for single-ply membrane roof covers
- High wind checklist for concrete buildings
- Selecting windows to withstand a hurricane
- Protecting your windows from windborne debris
- Critical maintenance can help mitigate hurricane damage
- Make your business hurricane ready
- Hurricane-ready brochure
- Extreme tropical weather illustrates importance of emergency planning
- 10 lessons learned from Superstorm Sandy
- High wind checklist for large commercial doors
- High wind checklist for metal edge flashing
- Protect your business during hurricane season
- Hotels – Preventing avoidable loss from wind-driven rain
- How hail guards help protect roof-mounted HVAC equipment
- Preparing commercial roofs for hurricanes and high winds
- Roof edge flashing installation and maintenance
- Proper roof drainage
- Roof cover maintenance and repair
- Roof-mounted equipment maintenance
- Protecting roof-mounted HVAC units from bad weather
- 8 ways to maintain commercial roofs
- Commercial roofs: Best practices guide
- Snow load risks for commercial roofs
- Ice dam guidance for steep-sloped roofs
- Prevent water damage through proper roof drain maintenance
- Routine maintenance can protect your roof from severe storms
- Wood bowstring trusses
- Photovoltaic roof inspection guide
- How to select a commercial roof contractor
- Roof protection for habitational buildings
- Texas commercial roof inspection guide
- Photovoltaic array inspection checklist
- Preventing roof collapse due to snow and ice
- Danger of Snow and Ice on Rooftops
- Roof-mounted solar panels: Risks vs. benefits
- Reducing the risk of flood damage
- 5 actions to reduce water damage
- Flood property protection
- What to do when flooding is imminent
- Minimize damage from floods
- Preventing water damage in human services facilities
- Hotels – Preventing avoidable loss from wind-driven rain
- How water monitoring systems can help prevent water damage
- Severe weather checklist for businesses - Hurricanes
- Severe weather checklist for businesses - Wind, rain and hail
- Severe weather checklist for businesses – Winter weather
- Severe weather pre-planning checklist for businesses
- Water damage mitigation for businesses
- Water damage response plan for businesses
- Water mitigation infographic
- Water mitigation roles and responsibilities
- Water mitigation self-assessment
- Water mitigation self-audit for businesses
- Wet work permits for businesses
- Wet work programs to mitigate water damage
- Wet work valve tags for businesses
- Storm damage prevention for property managers
- Warehouses: Preventing avoidable loss from convective storms
- Preparing a business for the holiday/winter weather season
- Protecting buildings from unusual weather
- Preparing buildings for snow and ice storms
- Pre-winter building maintenance checklist
- Reducing damage from hailstorms
- Protecting your business from storm damage
- Last minute checklist for severe winter weather
- Severe weather threatens small business survival
- Protect your business from winter risks
- Protect your business from hail damage
- Protect your building from winter weather
- Protect construction sites from severe weather
- Don't let a storm blow away profits
- How to prepare your business for El Nino
- 8 ways to prevent frozen pipe damage
- Apartment communities: Prevent avoidable damage from severe storms
- Prepare your business ahead of winter weather
- Pre-incident planning checklist
- Using generators for emergency power
- Employee roles in disaster recovery planning
- Supply chain management in your business continuity plan
- Why business continuity planning is important
- Knowing the risks to your business
- Commercial generators for power outages
- Building a disaster recovery plan
- Business continuity planning for small businesses
- Business continuity planning toolkit
- Business record protection
- Social media use for your business continuity plan
- Severe weather emergency preparedness
- Getting back to business
- An easy-to-use guide to business continuity planning
- How to plan for severe weather emergencies
- Be prepared with Nationwide’s Business Continuity Management Interactive Program
- Flu season business assessment
- Recovery priorities for business continuity planning
- Top 5 myths about business continuity planning
- What's in your disaster recovery toolbox?
- BYOD policies and business continuity plans
- The role of telecommuting in a business continuity plan
- Business continuity planning for home-based businesses
- Preparing healthcare facilities for disaster
- Crisis communication planning
- Disaster planning made easy
- Emergency action plans for construction
- Eclipse readiness for your business
- Maintain closed or idle buildings during civil unrest
- Take ACTION to weather the potential storm of civil unrest
- Maintaining closed or idle work facilities
- Strategies for protecting idle construction projects
- Prepare your facility for reopening after a COVID-19 closure
- Maintaining closed or idle hotels during COVID-19
- Unoccupied buildings
- Protecting vacant commercial property
- Real estate lock and key security checklist
- Apartment safety checklist
- Protect your business from burglary
- Help prevent robbery in your retail store
- Contractor equipment theft
- Modern commercial building codes
- Identify indicators of fraud to help protect your business
- Stay a step ahead of fraud
- Helpful resources for construction COVID-19 risk mitigation
- Construction of tall wood buildings
- PTAC vulnerability areas
- IBHS's FORTIFIED commercial construction standards
- Protecting a greenhouse and its contents
- Going green and building strong
- Questions Every Condo Owner Should Ask
- Property management maintenance checklist
- Seasonal maintenance and inspection checklist
- Prepare your business ahead of winter weather